Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
The state in which a person temporarily adopts the mindset of, or roleplays as, an animal, especially when done as coping mechanism to relieve stress, anxiety or trauma, or simply for recreational entertainment (for fun); the state in which one enters the headspace of an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: petre, petreg
Antonyms: none provided
History
From pet + regression, by analogy with age regression.
